A New Visual Narrative of Nineteenth-Century Historicism

我将与卡罗琳·范·埃克教授以及维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆合作建立V&A博物馆AHRCCOLLABORATIVE博士合作伙伴关系。这位博士生将研究七种风格，这些风格在十九世纪被认为是人类文化的主要物质成分，这些风格都在维多利亚与阿肯色州的收藏中得到了代表：埃及风格、亚述风格、古典风格、中世纪欧洲风格、伊斯兰风格、中国风格和印度风格。我将确定复兴每一种风格的十九个世纪的物品，并将重建这些物品的轨迹，或它们所属的类型，如何在十九世纪的政治、民族、种族、宗教或文化身份的物质构成中发挥作用。就我个人而言，我感兴趣的是，在艺术史日益专业化的时代，这与历史写作的问题如何相互作用，品味和收藏问题，以及这如何与性别、种族和阶级问题交叉，以及真实性的悖论如何在历史对象与历史决定者对象之间可能的差异中发挥作用。

I will be working with professor Caroline van Eck and the Victoria and Albert Museum on the V&A MUSEUM AHRCCOLLABORATIVE DOCTORAL PARTNERSHIP. The PhD student will examine seven styles that were considered in thenineteenth century as the major material constituents of human culture, and which are all represented in the V&A'scollections: Egyptian, Assyrian, Classical, Medieval European, Islamic, Chinese and Indian. I will identify nineteenthcenturyobjects that revived each style and will reconstruct how the trajectory of these objects, or the types to which theybelong, functioned in the material constitution of political, national, ethnic, religious or cultural identities in the nineteenthcentury. Personally, I am interested in researching how this interacts with issues of history writing at a time of growingprofessionalisation of art history, issues of taste and collecting, and how this intersects with issues of gender, ethnicity,and class, as well as the paradoxes of authenticity working in the possible differences between the historic versus thehistoricist object.